Lewis Mehl-Madrona and Barbara Mainguy have been recording video public lectures, talks and sessions on a range of critical subjects for many years. To explore more video content, please click the button at the bottom of the page.
Video Clip: One-Minute Wisdom from Sounds True, who asked me what I would say to people to improve their lives if I only had one minute, so I said that relationship is what really matters, John Lennon was right (All you need is love), and we need to keep our old friends and make new ones (just like we learned in kindergarten).
A Spirit Keepers Series free public talk by Lewis Mehl-Madrona, MD, PhD, author of the Coyote Trilogy, on Coyote Medicine: Lessons from Native American Healing. This event was made possible through collaboration between Johns Hopkins Center for American Indian Health and Kenosis Spirit Keepers. Held in Baltimore, MD, on January 15, 2015. I’m discussing what the world’s traditional medicines can teach conventional medicine – the healing power of relationship, the importance of listening without judging or interpreting, the importance of the spiritual dimension for healing, the necessity of community, our own healing powers from within, and more.
There are stories we have about ourselves that play in our head. Characters and plot lines that affect, and sometimes limit, our experience of self and our interactions with others. What if we could change those stories? How would that change our lives, our community, and our planet? This is an interview with Barbara Mainguy and me about our book, Remapping Your Mind: The Neuroscience of Self-Transformation through Story.
www.earthandspirit.org - Aboriginal Models for Integration of Mind, Spirit & Body – In this recorded interview, I’m comparing and contrasting indigenous theories about the mind with conventional biomedical and psychological views. I’m emphasizing the way indigenous people see mind as non-local, inter-connected with everything, and inseparable from body, community, land, and context, more of a verb than a noun.
This recording is a short interview I gave about a lecture that was upcoming at The Mental Health Conference in Sydney, Australia in 2017, at #themhs2017. I spoke on the idea of 'two-eyed seeing', integrating Indigenous approaches and Western biomedical models in mental health, and the idea of explanatory pluralism, that both the indigenous world view and the biomedical world view could be correct, and that we can be discerning in what we use when.
Story-telling and the use of Metaphors. This recorded interview gets to the power of metaphors and their use in storytelling. I mention the Athens Airport in which the trolleys that people use to cart their luggage from place to place are called metaphora. Thus, a metaphor is a device to make it easier to move things, say from the body to the mind or to the understanding of another person.
"The Power of Community"
Once upon a time, I was the Scholar-in-Residence for the Goddard Graduate Institute in Vermont. Their theme that year was "Beloved Community," which is, of course, one of my common themes – that we heal in community; that it takes a community to raise a child, treat illness, and stay healthy; and that we need to look to caring for each other in a more tribal, altruistic way, if we are going to survive.
Short 1 minute program: Indigenous Views of Psychosis, which is an introduction to a day-long workshop that Barbara and I did across New Zealand in 2018. I mention how indigenous people had a less pathological view of what we call psychosis and an understanding that people could and would recover and a sense that sometimes it’s an opening to the spiritual dimension.
Kodiak Area Native Association Health Clinic Talk 2019
This is a talk I gave on incorporating culture into health care practices in Kodiak, Alaska, 27 March 2019. I’m talking about simple practices that work, including health care providers learning some language, asking people about their cultural practices, and what they would like to see people at the clinic doing to honor and support those practices. We mentioned praying over medicine, acknowledging the spirit of the illness, and making room for spiritual practitioners to also be part of the clinic activities.
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